Missouri AI Laws: What's Enacted and What's Next (2027)

As of November 2026, Missouri has not enacted a comprehensive AI law, in our search. Its one recent statute aimed at digitally faked images is RSMo 573.570, the crime of disclosing an intimate digital depiction, enacted in HB 2273 and effective August 28, 2026. That statute says "digital manipulation", not artificial intelligence.

How we searched: Where this page says we found no law, we mean a full-text search of every bill and joint resolution on the Missouri Senate's Truly Agreed to and Finally Passed lists for the 2025 and 2026 regular sessions (165 measures), for "artificial intelligence", "machine learning", "chatbot", "generative", "deepfake", "synthetic media", "algorithm", "automated decision", "automated processing", "computer-generated" and "digital manipulation", through November 4, 2026. We also ran text searches of our stored copy of the Revised Statutes of Missouri, captured from July 31, 2026, with a control term that returned hits. The 2025 special sessions were not searched, and a stored copy is not a check of current law.

This page covers Missouri state law as of November 4, 2026. It is general legal information, not legal advice. For the national picture, see our guide to US AI laws.

Missouri AI Laws at a Glance

RSMo 573.570 (HB 2273): Missouri's Intimate Digital Depiction Law

RSMo 573.570 came from HB 2273 et al., a child and vulnerable-person protection bill. The Governor approved it April 7, 2026, and the revisor shows the section effective August 28, 2026. The revisor's history also records merged versions in HB 2637, HB 3155 and SB 999.

A "digital depiction" is "a realistic visual depiction of an individual that has been created or altered using digital manipulation." The offense applies to a person who discloses, or threatens to disclose, an intimate digital depiction either with the intent to harass, annoy, threaten, alarm, or cause substantial harm to the depicted person's finances or reputation, or with actual knowledge of, or reckless disregard for, physical, emotional, reputational or economic harm to that person.

A disclaimer is not a defense. An interactive computer service is not treated as committing the offense because of good-faith steps to restrict access to these depictions. The section does not itself state a civil remedy.

RSMo 573.575, from the same bill, creates the class E felony of sadistic online exploitation. It reaches the conduct it lists, including using intimate depictions to threaten or coerce a victim by demanding financial gain.

The same bill changed Missouri's term "child pornography" to "child sexual abuse material" in RSMo 573.010. The definition covers a computer-generated image of sexually explicit conduct that is, or is indistinguishable from, that of a minor, where an ordinary person viewing it would conclude it shows an actual minor.

Our guide to Missouri deepfake laws covers these laws in more depth. We found no enacted Missouri law aimed at election deepfakes; the bills that tried are listed below.

Executive Order 26-02: AI in Missouri State Government

Executive Order 26-02 is an order to state agencies, not a statute. It directs:

• Office of Administration: a strategic framework for "the safe and effective integration of Artificial Intelligence within State Government operations", covering data privacy, human oversight, transparency and data quality.
• Department of Economic Development: a review of the business environment for AI companies and policy recommendations.
• Department of Natural Resources, with the Public Service Commission: a review of energy rules and planning as data centers grow.
• Department of Higher Education and Workforce Development: AI education and training work.

All reports are due to the Governor's Office by November 30, 2026. As of November 4, 2026, we had not seen any of them. Executive Order 26-03, dated the same day, encourages departments to explore AI for routine tasks within the Order 26-02 standards.

The 2026 budget bills as truly agreed fund a shared AI development environment for state agencies (HB 2005 section 5.021, HB 2011 section 11.053). The Governor vetoed parts of both bills on June 30, 2026, and we did not check whether those lines survived.

Missouri AI Bills That Did Not Pass

The last day of the 2026 session was May 15, 2026. None of these measures appears on the Senate's Truly Agreed list for its year. The table shows the main bills we checked, not every AI bill filed.

AI Note-Takers and Recording in Missouri

AI meeting assistants raise recording consent questions. Our guide to Missouri AI meeting recording laws covers them.

What We Did Not Find in Missouri Law

In the search described at the top of this page, we found no enacted Missouri statute specific to AI in employment, health care, chatbots, insurance or pricing, and no frontier model law. The passed-bill hits on those terms were HB 2273 and its merged versions, budget lines, and non-AI uses such as electronic-record security procedures. General laws may still apply to those uses.

Missouri is not on the NAIC's list of states acting on its AI model bulletin for insurers, status as of November 3, 2026. That list may lag. A web search of state sites found no such bulletin, but it would not show every one. We did not search attorney general opinions or court rules.

Attorneys general in Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Montana, Nebraska and West Virginia announced separate suits against OpenAI on October 14, 2026. Official releases from several of those states also name Kansas. A search of the Missouri attorney general's news posts through November 4, 2026 found no Missouri suit.

Federal AI Policy and Missouri

As of November 4, 2026, we found no federal statute in the public laws of the 119th Congress that sets general rules for private AI systems or generally preempts state AI laws. In December 2025, Executive Order 14365 directed federal agencies to challenge or discourage state AI laws the administration views as conflicting with national policy, and called for a federal framework from Congress. The order itself does not declare any state law invalid. The Justice Department formed an AI Litigation Task Force in January 2026, the White House issued legislative recommendations in March 2026, and the FTC proposed a policy statement in July 2026. Separately, in April 2026 the Justice Department intervened in a lawsuit against Colorado's AI law under the Civil Rights Act of 1964. We did not find a published Commerce evaluation of state laws in the Federal Register or on ntia.gov, or a BEAD notice carrying the order's AI condition on NTIA's sites. See our pages on the Trump AI executive orders and state AI law preemption.

What Changes in Missouri AI Law in 2027

• November 30, 2026: reports under Executive Order 26-02 are due to the Governor's Office.
• January 6, 2027: the next General Assembly meets, under the Missouri Constitution, article III, section 20 (the first Wednesday after the first Monday in January following a general election). We found no 2027 AI bill as of November 4, 2026.

As of November 4, 2026, we found no AI law scheduled to take effect in Missouri in 2027; we searched the passed bills and statutes described at the top of this page for the 2025 and 2026 sessions.

More Missouri Laws

• Missouri Data Privacy Laws
• Missouri Whistleblower Laws
• Missouri Employee Monitoring Laws
• Missouri Deepfake Laws
• Missouri AI Meeting Recording Laws

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Missouri have an AI law?

Not a comprehensive one, in our search of the 2025 and 2026 regular sessions. Missouri has RSMo 573.570, an intimate digital depiction crime in force since August 28, 2026, which says digital manipulation rather than AI, and Executive Order 26-02 on state government planning.

Are deepfakes illegal in Missouri?

Some are. RSMo 573.570 makes it a felony to disclose or threaten to disclose an intimate digital depiction of an identifiable person, with the intent or knowledge the statute lists. It is not a general deepfake ban, and we found no enacted Missouri law aimed at election deepfakes.

What is the penalty for an intimate deepfake in Missouri?

Under RSMo 573.570, disclosure is a class D felony and a threat to disclose is a class E felony. Either is a class C felony on a second or later violation, or when the depiction could reasonably be expected to affect a government proceeding, including an election, or to facilitate violence.

Did Missouri pass SB 1012?

No. A House committee's motion to do pass failed on May 12, 2026, and the bill is not on the Senate's 2026 Truly Agreed list. The perfected version had carried the AI Non-Sentience and Responsibility Act, companion chatbot rules and a political ad disclaimer.

Does Missouri regulate AI chatbots?

We found no enacted Missouri chatbot statute as of November 4, 2026. Companion chatbot provisions in SB 1012 and bills such as HB 2032 and HB 1742 did not pass in 2026.

What is Missouri Executive Order 26-02?

It is Governor Kehoe's January 13, 2026 order directing state agencies to build a framework for AI in state government, review the AI business environment, review energy planning for data centers, and work on AI education. Reports are due by November 30, 2026. It sets no rules for private companies.

Is Missouri suing OpenAI?

We found no such suit in a search of the attorney general's news posts through November 4, 2026. Missouri is not among the states that announced separate suits on October 14, 2026.